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AIXPert is an all-purpose GUI and command-line security tool that incorporates over 300 security configuration settings. Learn about recent enhancements implemented with IBM AIX V6.1, including SOX auditing support, and go through real scenarios to show how AIXPert can be used from the command line, smit and the GUI.

Guice is Google's open source dependency injection framework for Java development. It enables better testing and modularity by taking away the pain of writing your own factories. This article offers a tour of the most important Guice concepts that will leave you ready to Guice up your applications.

This collection of how-to guides, demos, and articles will help you sharpen your skills around the range of implementation technologies needed during all phases of application development cycle.

Apart from its use as a powerful Web application development platform, in combination with the Rails framework Ruby is also a powerful scripting language. It has immense capabilities, owing to the availability of many built-in and external libraries, the power of which can be harnessed to solve a great deal of the scripting needs that surface in typical systems administrative work environments.

The W3C XML Schema working group has developed XML Schema 1.1 to address the most commonly requested features including several which address shortcomings of XML Schema 1.0. In this first of a multi-part series of articles, XML Schema 1.1 is introduced with an overview of the features in this emerging standard.

This e-Kit provides materials that can help you learn about IBM Rational software’s role in risk, security and compliance for financial services institutions – building security into every financial application and service.

Discover how IBM Rational software definition and requirements management portfolio can enable successful software delivery. Visit IBM developerWorks to download a trial version at no cost.

This article provides developers and administrators with a listing of the developerWorks articles that cover configuration, administration, interoperability, Kerberized filesystems (NFS V4), and different Kerberized login modules based on IBM NAS for the AIX Network Authentication Service (NAS).

Web developers who use Java technologies can quickly improve their applications' performance by using a cache utility. Java Caching System (JCS) is a highly configurable tool with a simple API. This article gives you an overview of JCS and shows how you can use it to speed up your Web applications.

IBM Rational RequisitePro is a requirements and use case management tool for project teams who want to improve the communication of project goals, enhance collaborative development, reduce project risk and increase the quality of applications before deployment.

The Friendly Interactive Shell, or fish, is a joy to use. Its syntax, context-sensitive help, and color-coded command-line interface (CLI) greatly simplify the use of UNIX and ease the burdens of scripting. This article offers tips and tools on how to use it. So, go fish !

Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial version of IBM Rational Business Developer V7.5 , which offers rapid and simplified development of business applications and services through Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) tools, generating Java or mainframe solutions while shielding developers from technical complexities.

Installing software is often a painful chore for most users. The installation package you generate can make the difference between user adoption and another product thrown into the virtual waste bin. This article demonstrates how the freely available, open source IzPack tool for writing wizard-based installers can make installing your software a snap for users.

In today's partitioned and virtualized computing environments, the requirement for naming standards is more apparent than ever before. This article defines naming categories and provide standards for creating enterprise-wide unique names associated with each category.

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) have become a hot topic, especially regarding their ability to build such languages. After having established both an AST scheme and a basic front-end parser, this article wires it all together to provide seamless, whole explanations. It also suggests some extensions that could be made to the language and interpreter.

Samba is an open source, free software suite that provides seamless file and print services between Windows clients and UNIX-like platforms. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed in the host server. When configured, this server software allows the host machine to share files and printers and make them accessible from Windows clients.

The Linux kernel uses several special capabilities of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) suite. These capabilities range from giving you shortcuts and simplifications to providing the compiler with hints for optimization. Discover some of these special GCC features and learn how to use them in the Linux kernel.

One emphasis of XSLT 2.0 is better support for internationalization, especially to sort and compare text. This article demonstrates how to write a custom collation function and invoke it from an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet.

This article details the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) mapping of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) faults to Java exceptions, Java exceptions to WSDL faults, and some other exceptions defined by the JAX-WS specification.

This article explains what orphan subscriptions are, how they can occur, how to identify them, and most importantly, how you can remove them.

The IBM Smart Data Administration e-Kit is available at no charge and provides resources to help you take control of your data. Find out how to do more with less in this e-Kit that includes podcasts, developerWorks articles, and demos.

This article hows how to animate images in unexpected and artistic ways using the Java 2D API and cellular automata. You can use the ideas from this article to create your own image operators and artistic programs using Java technology.

Learn more about the new IBM Rational Architecture Management and Construction solutions version 7.5. This complimentary e-kit provides a collection of best practices, how-to guides, and materials to help you deliver a stable, reusable architecture, as well as guidance on related IBM tools.

Most system administrators planning to install Linux on IBM System p eventually run into an important question: Which Linux distribution should I install? This article compares two distributions from Red Hat and Novell, and weighs the pros and cons of each.

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) are staples of Web 2.0 development. This article demonstrates the native JSON and Ajax capabilities baked into the Web framework.